Flora of New Zealand Series

Solidago arborescens A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 2, 1839, 126 non Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 56.

Senecio glastifolius Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 147, t. 39 non Linn. f. Suppl. Pl. 1781, 372.

S. neo-zeylandicus Druce in 2nd Suppl. Rep. bot. (Soc.) Exch. Cl. Manchr. for 1916 1917, 646.

Type locality: "between Bay of Islands and Hokianga". Type: K, "435 R. Cunningham, 1834".

Glab. shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches brittle. Lvs 4-10×2-4 cm., on petioles c. 1 cm. long, rather fleshy, narrowly to broadly obovate-cuneate to elliptic-oblong in outline, coarsely and irregularly sinuate-dentate to sinuate and subentire. Corymbs up to 30 cm. diam. or more, lower bracts foliaceous; capitula campanulate, up to 5 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, acute, membr. on margins. Ray-florets few, with white spreading ligules 2-3 cm. long. Achenes linear, c. 6 mm. long, finely grooved; pappus-hairs stiff, up to 9 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

DIST.: N. Terrestrial or epiphytic in lowland and lower montane forests throughout.

S. tripetaloides Col. in T.N.Z.I. 31, 1899, 272 from north of Poverty Bay and East Cape was stated by Colenso to have affinities with S. glastifolius; the description, including "heads . . . bright-yellow . . . Ray-florets 3, spreading", places it rather with S. perdicioides.